Autism is not a learning difficulty

I don't like this either. But there are a few main problems.

Socially, the issues with communication are assumed to align with morality. This has major implications and part of the reason people feel justified when saying someone who cannot read their mind lacks empathy. Should it turn out that autistic thinking and reasoning is responsible for a wealth of historical content - the engineering of technological society to where it is now, and the possibility Autistics catch matters of injustice and bad ethics in society, people having this realisation might become angry. Everyone navigates on the assumption they are inherently good, not bad. This is really the most inverted oppression faced by Autistics. 

It should be perfectly fine that children excel and grow in different ways. We are humans, not machine. Some will need to mature in the typical fashion - socially, being thrust into 'doing' adult things like driving, getting any job and just jumping full speed into the rat race. Others will never thrive being forced down this path but will end up getting "flattened in the machine" turning on a cog never being able to mature properly, and so need a different path into adulthood, which may mean doing the things once it's mentally integrated, but being allowed to grow at their own pace with their potential. 

Autistic and NeuroDivergent parents might make more room for their children's sense of becoming. But in this society, the ability to sense and allow for this can mean incorporating middle class values even if one is trying to navigate financial hardship. This is the biggest hinderance in our time.

I don't like this either. But there are a few main problems.

Socially, the issues with communication are assumed to align with morality. This has major implications and part of the reason people feel justified when saying someone who cannot read their mind lacks empathy. Should it turn out that autistic thinking and reasoning is responsible for a wealth of historical content - the engineering of technological society to where it is now, and the possibility Autistics catch matters of injustice and bad ethics in society, people having this realisation might become angry. Everyone navigates on the assumption they are inherently good, not bad. This is really the most inverted oppression faced by Autistics. 

It should be perfectly fine that children excel and grow in different ways. We are humans, not machine. Some will need to mature in the typical fashion - socially, being thrust into 'doing' adult things like driving, getting any job and just jumping full speed into the rat race. Others will never thrive being forced down this path but will end up getting "flattened in the machine" turning on a cog never being able to mature properly, and so need a different path into adulthood, which may mean doing the things once it's mentally integrated, but being allowed to grow at their own pace with their potential. 

Autistic and NeuroDivergent parents might make more room for their children's sense of becoming. But in this society, the ability to sense and allow for this can mean incorporating middle class values even if one is trying to navigate financial hardship. This is the biggest hinderance in our time.